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Lab 2: Basic operant phenomena
Magazine Training, Shaping, Extinction, and Spontaneous Recovery
In this laboratory class, we will use the Sniffy Software to understand operant conditioning.
When the program starts up you can expect to see Sniffy rearing u

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, CUHK
PSYC 2300B Basic Learning Processes (2nd term, 2011 2012)
1. Course Description: What is the course about?
In this paper we will explore how behaviour is controlled and shaped by environment
resulting in learning and memory.

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Lab 3: Stimulus Generalization and Discrimination
An organism has made a discrimination when it responds to a stimulus in its presence
and does not do so in its absence. We say that this response is under the stimulus
control of the specific stimulus. T

PSYC 2300B Basic Learning Processes
2011-2012 Spring
Lab 1: Eye blink conditioning
When a puff of air is blown into the human eye, the eyelid will close immediately and
involuntarily. This is called the eye-blink reflex. In other words, an eye-blink can b

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Extinction 1
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Effects of extinction
(1) decrease in responding
(2) increase in response variability
-variability increases even though total responding is dropping
-variability increases even for subjects not previously reinforced for re

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Stimulus Control
A.
Generalisation
(1) stimulus generalisation
-response reinforced under a certain SD also emerges under similar SDs,
which have NOT been used in training
-the response is said to have generalised to these similar SDs
-Gut

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Instrumental Conditioning 1
A.
Law of effect: Thorndike (1911) "Animal Intelligence"
(1) performance of voluntary behaviour is influenced by the effect of the
behaviour
(2) behaviour producing satisfying effects will be more frequent/durab

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Classical Conditioning
A.
Pavlov's classic finding
(1) meat powder presented to a dog in the laboratory
(2) response = salivation
(3) accidentally there was bell ringing very close in time to meat powder
presentation
(4) after a number of